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(No ModeL) 11 SOLA-NQ. ELECTRIO'WIRE GOUPLING.

No. 360,925. Patented Apr. 12,1887.

WITNESSES:

ATTORNEY N. versus. Pbmoumngnphu. Wahinghm. n. c,

T aZZ whom it may concern.-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RENALDO SOLANO, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF TW'O-THIRDS TO JOHN W. HOWARD AND DAVID R. MORSE, BOTH OF SAME PLACE;

ELECTRIC-WIRE COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 360,925, dated April 12, 1887.

Application filed December 18, 1886. Serial No. 221,918. (X0 model.)

Be it known that I, RENALDO SOLANO, a citizen of theUnited States, residing in the city of Brooklyn, county of Kings, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Electric-Wire Couplings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of the same, and in which the figure is a longitudinal sectional view showing wire couplings adapted to combine with pipe-couplings for railway-cars.

In the present instance the invention is adapted to the purpose of connecting electric circuit-wires, at the intersections of railwaytrains in cases where electricity is used to aid in operating the brake mechanism, and for other like purposes.

The object of this invention is to give a durable and positive connection of circuitwires secure against breakage or detachment from exterior causes,while readily detachable by hand, and also to combine said connection of wires with a pipe-coupling, whereby the coupling or uncoupling of both pipes and wires will be effected simultaneously by a single act.

The pipecoupling shown in the figure corresponds in construction to one which I have described for use in vacuum-brakes in an application filed August 3, 1886, No. 209,862, and the same will therefore not require specific description herein, further than general reference to its operation in conjunction with the circuit-connections.

The chambers A and B, which are placed upon the flexible ends of the usual train-pipe sections, are shown coupled in communication I with one another and there held by the pivoted arms A B, the latter having disk-shaped l faces which close, respectively, upon the openings of the chambers A B when the latter are uncoupled, the movement being effected by suitable springs on the pivots a b. Upon and between the lugs c d of the arms A B and chambers A B are interposed the contact studs or plates e,which are insulated from and fixed in said lugs and connected, as shown,with the circuit-wires f of the train, so that by thrusting the levers A B" in a direction toward the pipe the contacts will be broken without disturbance to the wires. By this construction the circuit'contacts are insured, inasmuch as the lugs c 11 receive the full elastic pressure of the pipe-j oint, the latter having interposed rubber gaskets, and are securely clamped together by the clamping action of the links a b when the levers are thrust into place.

It will be observed that the electrical c011- nections are adapted to the counterpart form of coupler shown to avoid the inconvenience which might arise with the male and female types of coupler commonly employed in the event of the car being turned, or in coupling from an opposite direction.

I claim as my invention- The combination, with a separable pipecoupling, substantially as described, of separable wire-couplings for electric circuit-wires, the same consisting of insulated contact-surfaces interposed between the acting sides of pipe-clamping lugs, as shown, and electrically connected to said circuit-wires, the said pipe-coupling and wire couplings being simultaneously operated by the means specified.

RENALDO SOL ANO.

Vit-nesses:

CHAS. W. FoRBEs, AUG. CREVELING. 

